Build Your Own DIY Home Gym for Under $40!

Here’s how you can build your own home gym, from things you can get at a hardware store, for about $35.

If you have heard of TRX, you have also probably heard of suspension training, where you have about 300 exercise options, using your own bodyweight.

We have TRX to thank for the suspension training movement, but like most things, stuff evolves. This post is about an evolution in suspension training equipment I call the “UpLifter.”

Below is the video on how to build your own suspension trainer, for much less expense than buying a TRX system. Plus, it also works better and faster. Like I said, it’s an evolution.

Now here is the list of parts available at any large hardware store.

I went to Harbor Freight for the first four parts because it’s the least expensive, and then to Home Depot to pick up the last two parts, as I couldn’t get them at Harbor Freight, but all of these items can be found at Home Depot (or most other hardware stores) if you’d rather just go to one place.